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19 May 2007, 1:40 am
David Greenberg, who I rarely agree with, writes at the New York Times blog that conservatives claim to be abandoning Bush because he has not acted as a real conservative, but in reality they are abandoning him because his conservative policies have failed and the American people will soon reject them: Far from a subversion of modern American conservatism, Bush represents its fulfillment. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 12:13 am by Mike Rappaport
Hopefully, tomorrow will be a glorious day with a victory for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 2:08 pm by Mike Rappaport
Eugene Volokh points out that the Supreme Court's web site refers to the Court as engaging in Living Constitutionalism: This power of "judicial review" has given the Court a crucial responsibility in assuring individual rights, as well as in maintaining a "living Constitution" whose broad provisions are continually applied to complicated new situations. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 5:19 pm by Mike Rappaport
With President Obama's Administration doing so many horrible things, from destroying private health insurance to spending public funds on its allies like a drunken sailor to its shabby treatment of American allies abroad, I have struggled to find something to like about these guys. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 12:32 am
According to Randy Picker, the provision here is the operative one in TARP as to whether the automobile companies can be bailed out. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 4:45 pm by Mike Rappaport
If you had to sum up the health care mess in a short post, it would be this one. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 7:08 pm by Mike Rappaport
(This post has been moved to the top -- for the last time.) [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 4:10 pm
VDH defends Rumsfeld: Here is the record of Donald Rumsfeld. (1) Tried to take a top-heavy Pentagon and prepare it for the wars of the postmodern world, in which on a minute's notice thousands of American soldiers, with air and sea support, would have to be sent to some god-awful place to fight some savagery—and then be trashed live on CNN for doing it; (2) less than a month after 9/11 he organized the retaliation against al Qaeda in the heart of primordial Afghanistan that… [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 12:36 am
Steve Landsburg discusses how significant technological progress has been (and the fact that the means we use to measure per capita income significantly understates the benefits of such progress): As far as the quality of the goods we buy, try picking up an electronics catalogue from, oh, say, 2001 and ask yourself whether there's anything there you'd want to buy. [read post]
20 Nov 2006, 12:33 am
"America already lets people buy babies from surrogate mothers, and the risk of dying from renting out your womb is six times higher than from selling your kidney. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 2:10 am by Mike Rappaport
In Why Originalism Is So Popular, Eric Posner, who is something of a rightwing nonoriginalist, emphasizes what I regard as two of the major criticisms of many originalist theories: First, that originalism requires a workable constitutional amendment system, but our system does not produce amendments. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 7:01 am
These words uttered by Winston Smith in 1984 come to mind these days. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 5:11 pm
Manny Klausner is the founder of Reason Magazine, stalwart supporter of the Federalist Society, and libertarian lawyer extraordinaire. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 12:59 pm
Tyler Cowan writes what appears to be well-informed, nuanced and balanced view of Pinochet. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 5:01 pm by Mike Rappaport
Some people are arguing that the enrolled bill doctrine forecloses judicial review of the Slaughter Solution should the Health Care Bill be enacted through that method. [read post]
4 May 2011, 4:27 pm by Mike Rappaport
According to this Wall Street Journal piece on the Online World of Female Desire: Whereas two-minute video clips are the most popular form of contemporary erotica for men, the most popular form for women remains the romance novel, an artifact that takes many hours to digest. [read post]